This is the very first time I have actually managed to stay absolutely spoiler free !! I've been looking forward to seeing this and wanted to go in absolutely free from anyone's opinions. Well , I guess if I am PERFECTLY honest, I am almost spoiler free. I did read " The 12 things " article but that was on Facebook because we are friends and ...well.... there it was !! But she was quite careful to not reveal much at all so I still feel pretty unspoiled.

I took a fast peek at the Hobbit board , saw the negativity just in some headline posts and veered straight away. Not ready for that.

I spent the entire day feeling happy and giddy about The Hobbit finally being here and I'd love for that feeling to continue. My co-workers were all shaking their heads and laughing as I did a countdown on the hour. It's been a lot of fun geeking out among them. Only one of them is a LOTR fan and she shared my enthusiasm.

If someone of old who recognizes me would like to send a PM , (or anyone for that matter - we are all family for life really ), to point me in the direction of a happy positive thread tomorrow that would be lovely. I like to gush about the cinematography , seeing Middle Earth again, Frodo , Rivendell, everything that transports us into that world for over 2 hours and leaves us there in our minds long after we climb into bed wondering just HOW IN THE WORLD are we going to get up in 4 hours and go to WORK !!

Less than 4 hours to go !!!!!!!!!! There's something of everything here, The Shire and the Golden Wood and Gondor and kings' houses and inns and meadows and mountains all mixed.

....and there are Elves when you want them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Formerly A'amel from days gone by.

that there's a contingency on The Hobbit board that function like mini-Ungoliants... sucking the light out of everything.

I won't be going to see TH till Christmas but I've pretty much decided that the only place on TORn I'll discuss the movies are in the Monday movie thread on Off Topic. Even if I wanted to wade into the negative stuff on the Hobbit board, any thread that got started would only last 85 minute before it fell to page two and be replaced by a new one.

I will admit, I'm trying to figure out a way to have some semi private conversations - with people who are generally of good nature even when they don't like something. Barring a place to do that, I guess it will all be 1:1 by email. If I have to carry on 10 distinct conversations it will still be worth it to avoid the mess on The Hobbit board.

You've got my email address, Rivendweller, and we did some conversations about HP by email. :-) But not for another week or two. :-(

It's a date to have some wonderful email exchanges with you Magpie ! I enjoy those very much. I know our HP one fell off quite soon, but I was in the midst of moving from North Carolina back to Florida at the time !

I can empathize with your statements and it would be quite fun to talk about it here on the Monday film thread with you as well. I've purposely avoided coming here in my quest to remain spoiler free, so it would be nice to come ' home ' for a bit and even share a pint or two on Fiesta Friday ! I'll be late to the parties though as this site is blocked at my job , but I'll jump on when I get home.

Have a wonderful wonderful Christmas , and enjoy the film when you do see it. Look for my owl !! ( er....email ! ) There's something of everything here, The Shire and the Golden Wood and Gondor and kings' houses and inns and meadows and mountains all mixed.

....and there are Elves when you want them. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Formerly A'amel from days gone by.

But in general, there is a positive atmosphere going on there now. The critcs reviews may have been mixed, but the majority of the fanbase seems to love it. Sounds good enough for me - rather that than the other way around! (like Harry Potter or King Kong)

There were too many moments in the movie where I thought "ah, this is the part I saw in the tv spot" or "this is the part I saw in the trailer". It was distracting. If I could do it all over again, I'd have not see either of the trailers nor any of the tv spots. Alas.

This is odd, too, cause I never had this problem with TTT or ROTK. Maybe it was the difference between seing the scenes in 2D vs 3D HFR?

I'm definitely reassessing how I'll handle TDOS spoilers. I may, alas, avoid TORN for most of next year.

Out of respect for Magpie and others, I will not share any thoughts on the movie here. I would love to discuss the movie with you, though, Magpie. I may not know you that well, but I definitely appreciate your insights, especially on things like the score. If you ever create a place to talk about the movie away from The Hobbit board, I'd appreciate an invite. all we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us...

I did create a forum for discussing soundtrack lyrics and the tech side of it was a bit confusing (I kept getting my son in) and honestly, half the people I want to discuss with that I know won't post on any forum and I'm not looking to draw conversation away from TORn.

If I discuss it publicly, it will almost certainly be in the Monday Movie thread on Off Topic. I might discuss music on Doug's blog (since it would only be on topic on the Hobbit board here) but I'm not so sure I will there. I don't like the blog comment format of conversation. And I'm not going to be overthinking the music.